Staff Reporter :
The country on Sunday registered 37 more deaths and detected 2,459 more patients of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
“With the new fatalities, the death toll now stands at 2,618 and the death rate 1.28 percent,” Professor Dr Nasima Sultana, Additional Director General (Administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said in a press briefing in Dhaka.
With the new cases, the total number of infections in the country rose to 2,04,525.
The DGHS official said that 10,625 samples were tested in 80 authorised laboratories across the country and found that the current infection rate was 23.14 percent.
Besides, the total infection rate stands at 19.89 percent, she said.
Dr. Sultana said, 1,546 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the same span while the total number of recoveries being 1,11,642 and the recovery rate 54.59 percent. She said that 609 people were put under isolation in the last 24 hours.
Dr. Sultana said that among the deceased, 29 were males. Of them, 15 were from Dhaka, eight from Chattogram, seven from Khulna, three from Rajshahi, two from Sylhet, and one each from Mymensingh and Rangpur divisions.
Of them, one was between 21-30 years old, one between 31-40, three between 41-50, six between 51-60, twenty between 61-70, four between 71-80, one between 81-90 and another was around 91-100 years old, Dr Nasima also said.
The DGHS official said that 1,164 patients above 60 years have so far died from coronavirus infections, which is 44.46 percent of the total deaths.
Bangladesh on March 8 reported its first infections and on March 18 registered first deaths from the Covid-19.
